Features and backgrounds

To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding of the Wellcome Trust, we are publishing a series of 14 features on people who have been significant in the Trust's history. In our second piece, Mark Henderson (Science Editor of 'The Times') looks at Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize winner and the first Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

A pathologist drawn into molecular biology in the mid-1980s and now Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Professor Mike Stratton tells Chrissie Giles how he'll never stop being fascinated by cells.